Putin vs. the oligarchs

Chris Burford cburford at gn.apc.org
Thu Jul 4 16:54:11 PDT 2002


Presumably with the dollar as a weak way to store value now, Putin's move is well timed.

It is a sort of populist national finance capital initiative initiative, it seems, not accidentally linked with a restriction of bourgeois democratic rights.

Chris Burford

At 02/07/02 18:30 +0400, you wrote:
>Business Week Online
>JULY 8, 2002
>Commentary: This Time, Putin May Really Tame the Oligarchs
>By Paul Starobin
>Starobin covers Russian economics and politics from Moscow.
>
>It's high time to bring the money back home--and spread it around. So
>Russian President Vladimir V. Putin is telling the country's Big-Business
>titans, commonly referred to as the oligarchs.



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